Paul Tesori - PGA Tour Golf Caddie to Webb Simpson
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 497
Paul Tesori is a former All-American at the University of Florida, a PGA TOUR Professional, and caddie to Vijay Singh. He is currently a coach and caddie to 2012 US Open champion and 2018 PLAYERS champion, Webb Simpson.
He and his wife Michelle have co-founded the Tesori Family Foundation, who's initiative is to give back to those in need. Their mission is to achieve great things through God by lending a helping hand, providing hope and healing hearts for children.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Paul about his role as a caddie to Webb Simpson, having a boss that is 13 years younger than him, his struggle with idolatry and how his faith was tested when he suffered a broken marriage, had an affair and became a workaholic. Paul's got a great story of faith and redemption.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey guys, welcome to the show. I am Jason Romano. This is Sports Spectrum and the Sports |
| 0:25.9 | Spectrum podcast. And today, we are presented by Ronald Blue Trust. Check them out at |
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| 0:44.6 | Ronblue.com. Paul Tesori is our guest today here on Sports Spectrum. Excited to have you |
| 0:51.8 | hear our conversation with Paul. He's a great guy. He's got a powerful |
| 0:56.0 | story of faith, and I can't wait for you to hear about his journey because he was in a very |
| 1:00.9 | broken place in his life back in 2010, basically lost everything from a worldly perspective, |
| 1:08.1 | and God got a hold of him and really redeemed him in a powerful way, |
| 1:12.5 | putting some people in his life that helped keep him accountable and helped grow him in his |
| 1:17.5 | journey with Jesus. And one of those people was Webb Simpson, who is where Paul Caddies |
| 1:24.4 | to. One of those guys was Webb Simpson, the golfer, who Paul Tesori is the caddy for. |
| 1:32.0 | And Webb, of course, you know Webb 2012 U.S. Open champion, 2018 PGA Tour Players Champion. |
| 1:38.5 | Six total PGA Tour wins for Webb Simpson that Paul has been a part of, including 2020 when they won the waste |
| 1:45.7 | management Phoenix Open before the pandemic hit. |
| 1:49.2 | And here we are, and it's almost summer. |
| 1:52.7 | And Paul is going to talk a little bit about how he's been coping with COVID-19 and the |
| 1:58.0 | quarantine time. |
| 1:59.0 | And the fact that the PGA tour is going to resume play, at least according to this recording, |
| 2:05.5 | on June 11th through the 14th at the Charles Swab Challenge. |
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